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Parenting with less money is hard in so many compounding ways — so how do we explain why it’s also  more  enjoyable and  more  rewarding? Sociologist Annette Lareau offers the most broadly accepted explanation: middle and upper-class parents approach parenting as a form of “concerted cultivation,” in which they work ti

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2. The solution was created without coding. This doesn’t mean that code wasn’t used to create it. It just means that the people who made it did not write the code themselves.

Category refers to the existing playbook of brand growth in a specific vertical and explores how to capitalize on its strengths and limitations. E.g. IKEA capitalized on the limitation of the furniture industry by: a) challenging the assumption that furniture needs to be put together when delivered and b) defining itself as the source of “well desi... See more

The new NYT strategy is centered around getting existing subscribers to use more of its products, including:

• Cooking, which has a library of 20k+ recipes, guides, and lessons


• Games, which has its flagship crossword puzzle, along with Spelling Bee, Tiles, and newly acquired Wordle


• Reviews, which offers access to thousands of Wirecutter product recomme

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I’m also curious about how products with human-centric recommendations will rise to this occasion. I’m seeing ambitious startups like Centroly and Beyond claiming to go head-to-head with the current revenue-driven algorithm.

I'm really inspired by also how they were really quiet for a really long time at the beginning. They were not trying to become the next new success story on the pages of every paper. They were much more just like, "We're just going to prove through the quality of our output over time that we are doing something interesting, and weird, and different... See more